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European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines

Acronym: EAASM

General Information

Identification Code: 861368611058-84
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Entity Form: Company Limited by Guarantee
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 4/29/2013
Last Update: 2/22/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: The EAASM will strive to ensure that most patients within the EU are aware of falsified and substandard medicines and unsafe medical practices and that national governments have put in place mechanisms to protect the population. The EAASM through innovative projects and activities will produce tangible and measurable outputs that have a significant bearing on making medicines and medical practices safer for the European population.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Consumers
  • Customs
  • Public health
  • Single market
  • Trade
Levels of Interest:
  • global
  • european
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: The EAASM is following closely the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive. The EAASM is also involved in activities relating to patient safety in the areas of off label use of medicines, compounding of medicines, regulatory aspects concerning nanomedicines. It has also involved in a major medication error and traceability patient safety project with the aim to significantly reduce medication errors by enhancing traceability processes within the hospital environment.
Communication Activities: The EAASM is actively involved with the EU Parliament and attends relevant meetings and hosts Healthcare debates in the Parliament bringing together MEPs, Commission and the Council. The EAASM has been active and successful in calling for amendments to the draft European Parliament Own-initiative Report: "Safer healthcare in Europe: improving patient safety and fighting antimicrobial resistance". The EAASM recalls that the EU pharmaceutical legislation was put in place to protect patient safety. The EAASM was active in contributing to DG SANTE scoping study on off label usage of medicines. The EAASM strongly believes that the Member States' medical professionals inform patients when a medicine is used off-label; and to provide patients with information on the potential risks in order to enable them to give fully informed consent. The EAASM supports the GOLUP approach relating to the process by which off label usage of medicines is decided. The EAASM recalls that the Internet is the largest unregulated pharmaceutical market place in the world with 62% of medicines purchased online being falsified or substandard with 95.6% of online pharmacies researched operating illegally. The EAASM calls on the European Commission and the Member States to build on the introduction of the Common Logo for online pharmacies (Implementing Regulation No 699/2014) and to extend it to a Europe-wide protocol for licensing online pharmacies which could potentially align with the pre-qualifications of the .pharmacy domain suffix which is well governed by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. The EAASM also supports the objectives and recommendations for the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe with the EU Healthcare Coalition which it is a partner. It has also contributed to the EU Commission Structural Dialogue initiative on product shortages. It has published a number of reports and communications which can be found on the ECAMET Alliance website (https://ecamet.eu) and the Nanomedicines Regulatory Coalition website (https://eunanomedicinescoalition.eu)
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Artificial intelligence and digital,Cancer

Head Office

Address: 12 Camden RoadDublin 8
Post Code: D08 R9CN
City: Dublin
Country: IRELAND
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EU Office

Address: 20 MADEIRA PARKMadeira Park
Post Code: TN2 5SX
City: TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.5
Info Members: The Executive Director spends up to 2 days per week working on EAASM activities. He is paid for this work.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: Link to website http://www.eaasm.eu/members-and-funders
Organisation Members: The EAASM is an active member of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (ASOP EU) Community Interest Company (www.asop.eu). As such, it contributes to the development of this not for profit collaborative group. (Participants in ASOP EU are united by a single mission that together they can create an environment that enables patients to buy their medicines online safely, in countries where it is legal for them to do so). The EAASM is also a civil Society member of the EUIPO/Observatory and is an expert with the Expert group of "Search engines". The EAASM is also a National Association of Boards of Pharmacy - DotPharmacy Executive Board Member. It is an active member of the EU Health Coalition as well as having multiple connections to patient safety organisations due it being the secretariat of the ECAMET Alliance and the Nanomedicines Regulatory Coalition.